AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! AWS announced several new services and capabilities including elastic GPUs for EC2, new EC2 instance types like T2.xlarge and T2.2xlarge, next generation R4 memory optimized instances, programmable F1 instances, Amazon Lightsail for simple virtual private servers, interactive queries on data in S3 with Amazon Athena, image and facial recognition with Amazon Rekognition, text-to-speech with Amazon Polly, natural language processing with Amazon Lex, PostgreSQL compatibility for Amazon Aurora, local compute and messaging for connected devices with AWS Greengrass, petabyte-scale data transport with storage and compute using AWS Snowball Edge and AWS Snow

1. A W S r e : I n v e n t r e : C a p
Julien Simon
Principal Technical Evangelist, AWS
julsimon@amazon.fr
@julsimon

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4. A Broad Spectrum Of Compute Capabilities In The AWS Cloud
P2M4 D2 X1 G2T2 R3 I2 C4
General Purpose
GPU
General Purpose
Dense storage Large memory
Graphics intensiveMemory intensive High I/O
Compute intensiveBurstable

5. Expanding The T2 Family With Larger Instance Types
Generally Available Today
T2.large
8 GiB
2 vCPU
T2.xlarge
16 GiB
4 vCPU
T2.2xlarge
32 GiB
8 vCPU
2X memory 4X memory
T2.medium
4 GiB
2 vCPU
T2.small
2 GiB
1 vCPU
T2.micro
1 GiB
1 vCPU
T2.nano
0.5GiB
1 vCPU

6. R4: Next Generation
Memory-Optimized
Instances
488 GiB
memory
DDR4
64 vCPUs
L3 cache
R4
2X vCPUs
R3
244 GiB
memory
DDR3
32 vCPUs
L3 cache
Generally Available Today
1.8X size
2X fast
2X memory
High performance databases
Distributed memory caches
In-memory analytics
Genome analysis

7. I2
365k IOPS
32 vCPUs
I3: Next Generation
I/O-Intensive Instances 3.3 million
IOPS
488 GiB
memory
64 vCPUs
15.2 TB
NVMe SSD
I3
2X vCPUs
2X memory
2.3X storage
9X IOPS
Coming Soon
NoSQL databases (Cassandra and MongoDB)
Scale out transactional databases
Data warehousing
Hadoop
Cluster file systems
244 GiB
memory
6.4 TB
SSD

8. C5: Next Generation
Compute-Optimized
Instances with
Intel “Skylake”
AVX 512 2X performance
Coming Soon
72 vCPUs
“Skylake”
144 GiB
memory
C5
12 Gbps
to EBS
2.4X memory
3X throughput
2X vCPUs
C4
36 vCPUs
“Haswell”
60 GiB
memory
4 Gbps
to EBS

9. A Broad Spectrum Of Compute Capabilities In The AWS Cloud
P2M4 D2 X1 G2T2 R4 I3 C5
General Purpose
GPU
General Purpose
Dense storage Large memory
Graphics intensiveMemory intensive High I/O
Compute intensiveBurstable

10. Elastic GPUs For EC2
Use Graphics GPUs As If They Were EBS Volumes
Preview Available Today

11. Elastic GPUs For EC2:
GPU Acceleration
For Graphics Workloads
1GiB
GPU Memory
2 GiB
4 GiB
8 GiB
Current
Generation
EC2
Instance

12. Simple Workloads Often Have Simple Requirements
Web sites Blogs Dev Environment Prototyping Build Servers
VPC networking
Subnets
IAM policies
Storage
Security groups

13. Amazon Lightsail
Virtual Private Servers (VPS) Made Easy
Generally Available Today

14. 1. Choose Image 2. Select Size 3. Pick A Name
Amazon Lightsail: VPS Made Easy on AWS
Two flavors of Linux,
Wordpress, Magneto, Drupal, Joomla
and other popular tools
Up To 8GiB, 2 vCPUs, 80GiB SSD Click ‘Create instance’,
and you’re done.

15. $5
Per month
Amazon Lightsail: VPS Made Easy on AWS
Launch
VM
Attach SSD
Storage
Create Security
Groups
Manage
IAM
Create
Static IP
Create Instance
Created By Amazon Lightsail
Setup
DNS
GO!

16. What About Hardware Acceleration?

17. F1 Instances
New Instance Family With Customizable
Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Run Your Custom Logic On EC2
Preview Available Today

18. Bringing Hardware
Acceleration To All
F1 Instances
F1 Instance
With your custom logic
running on an FPGA
Develop, simulate, debug
& compile your code
Package as
FPGA Images
FPGA Images Available In AWS Marketplace

19. We Love Ourselves Some Compute
General Purpose
GPU
General Purpose
Dense storage Large memoryBurstable
Memory intensive High I/O
Compute intensive
Simple VPS FPGAs
P2M4 D2 X1 G2T2 R4 I3 C5Lightsail F1
Graphics intensive
Elastic GPUs On EC2

20. The Ability to Understand Your Customers And Business Better Through Analytics
Real-time
streaming data
Data
Warehouse
Hadoop, Spark,
HBase, Hive, Presto,
Mahout, Pig, Zeppelin
Elasticsearch Business
Intelligence
Machine
Learning
Amazon
Kinesis
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon
EMR
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Amazon
QuickSight
Amazon
Machine Learning

21. Making Petabyte-scale Analytics
Accessible To Companies Of All Sizes
Data
Warehouse
Amazon Redshift
Hadoop, Spark
& Presto
Amazon EMR
Ad-hoc queries
against S3
Without spinning
up clusters
of instances

22. Amazon Athena
Interactive query service that makes it easy to
analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL
Generally Available Today

23. Amazon Athena: Interactive Queries On Data In S3
No need to move
data to Athena
Query S3 directly
& right away
No infrastructure or
clusters to setup &
manage
Fast results
within seconds
Pay for just the
queries you run

24. Introducing Amazon AI
Bringing Powerful Artificial Intelligence To All Developers

25. Amazon Rekognition
Image Recognition And Analysis
Powered By Deep Learning
Generally Available Today
1

26. Amazon Rekognition: Images In, Categories and Facial Analysis Out
Amazon
Rekognition
Car
Outside
Daytime
Driving
Objects
& Scenes
Female
Smiling
Sunglasses
Faces

27. Amazon Rekognition: Recognize, Search & Understand Images
Easy to use Batch
analysis
Real time
analysis
Low costContinually
improving

28. Amazon Polly
Text To Speech Powered By Deep Learning
Generally Available Today
2

29. Amazon Polly: Text In, Life-like Speech Out
Amazon Polly
“The temperature
in WA is 75°F”
“The temperature
in Washington is 75
degrees Fahrenheit”

30. Amazon Polly: Text In, Life-like Speech Out
Returns an MP3
audio stream
Unlimited
replay
Fully managedLightning fast
responses

31. Amazon ALEXA
(It’s what’s inside Alexa)
Preview Available Today
3
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) &
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Powered By Deep Learning
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) &
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Powered By Deep Learning

32. Amazon Lex: Speech Recognition & Natural Language Understanding
Amazon Lex
Automatic Speech Recognition
Natural Language Understanding
“What’s the
weather forecast?”
Weather
Forecast

33. Amazon Lex: Speech Recognition & Natural Language Understanding
Amazon Lex
Automatic Speech Recognition
Natural Language Understanding
“What’s the
weather forecast?”
“It will be sunny
and 75°F”
Weather
Forecast

34. Amazon Lex: Build Natural, Conversational Interactions In Voice & Text
Integrated
development
in the AWS console
Fully
managed
Trigger
Lambda
functions
Continually
improving ASR & NLU
models
Enterprise
connectors
Multi-step
conversations

35. Migrating Databases To AWS
14,000+
databases migrated
Migrate between
on-prem and AWS
Migrate between
databases
Automated schema
conversion
Data replication for
zero downtime
migrations

36. PostgreSQL For Aurora
Aurora is now fully compatible with both
PostgreSQL and MySQL
Preview Available Today

37. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition
1/10th The Cost Of
Commercial Grade
Databases
Fully PostgreSQL
Compatible
Several times better
performance than typical
PostgreSQL database
Scalable,
Durable and Secure
Migrate From
RDS For PostgreSQL

38. What Constitutes On-Premises Infrastructure?
Sensors & IoT Devices
Physical Servers
In Data Centers

39. Challenges Of Devices Living On The Edge
Round-trip latency
Intermittent connectivity
Expensive bandwidth
Programming and updating embedded software needs specialized skills
Limited to what is on the device unless you rewrite or program the device

40. AWS Greengrass
Embed Lambda Compute (& Other AWS Services) in
Connected Devices
Preview Available Today
Use The Same AWS Programming Model In Devices And The Cloud

41. AWS Greengrass: Local Compute, Messaging & Data Caching
Local
compute
Local
data caching
Secure
communications
Local
messaging

42. AWS Greengrass: How It Works
Built into
devices at
manufacture
Install the
Greengrass
runtime
Lambda functions
on AWS & devices
Manage from
AWS Console
Same programming
model
Local
communication
and orchestration

43. Excitement for
Amazon Greengrass
From Partners
& Customers
Operating Systems, Devices,
& System-On-A-Chip
IoT Products &
Deployments

44. AWS Snowball Edge
A New Hybrid Device With On-Board Storage & Compute
Generally Available Today

45. AWS Snowball Edge: Petabyte-Scale Data Transport, With On-board Compute
E-ink shipping label
Rugged enclosure
Color control
touchscreen
Rack
mountable
Integrated cable housing
100TB
capacity
On-device encryption

46. Clustering
capabilities
100 TB
storage
S3
endpoint
Greengrass
inside
Lambda on
m4.4xl equivalent
Automatic sharing
across devices
AWS Snowball Edge: Petabyte-Scale Data Transport, With On-board Compute

47. AWS Snowmobile
Generally Available Today
Introducing

48. AWS Snowmobile: 100PB Container
45-foot long
rugged container
& truck
Connect to your
datacenter with
fiber cable
Fill ‘er Up! Transports Data
To AWS

49. AWS Snowmobile:
Exabyte-Scale Data Transport
With 10Gbps, dedicated
connection
~6 months
With AWS
Snowmobile(s)
~26 years

50. https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/new-t2-xlarge-and-t2-2xlarge-instances/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2-r4-f1-elastic-gpus-i3-c5/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/new-next-generation-r4-memory-optimized-ec2-instances/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/in-the-work-amazon-ec2-elastic-gpus/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/developer-preview-ec2-instances-f1-with-programmable-hardware/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rekognition-image-detection-and-recognition-powered-by-deep-learning/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/polly-text-to-speech-in-47-voices-and-24-languages/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/amazon-lex-build-conversational-voice-text-interfaces/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-postgresql-compatibility/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-greengrass-ubiquitous-real-world-computing/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowball-edge-more-storage-local-endpoints-lambda-functions/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/
http://blog.julien.org/2016/11/a-hands-on-look-at-amazon-rekognition.html
http://blog.julien.org/2016/12/amazon-polly-hello-world-literally.html

51. AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! Delivering Graphics-Intensive Applications from AWS Cloud (CMP320)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSVe8L6Mmjs
AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing Amazon Lightsail (CMP206)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpBRxoNrhhc
AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! Intro to Amazon Athena - Analyze data in S3, using SQL (BDA303)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxAuj_Ky5aw
AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing Amazon Rekognition (MAC203)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk-TxySUAzw
AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing Amazon Polly (MAC204)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMqimHis3U
AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing Amazon Lex (MAC304)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5OlTMLinio
AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition (DAT206)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztmtJJTC8_Y
AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing AWS Greengrass (IOT201)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQjX8GTEko
AWS re:Invent 2016: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing AWS Snowball Edge and AWS Snowmobile (STG214)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8-DeSuKf9I

52. Thank You
re:Invent 2016
Julien Simon
Principal Technical Evangelist, AWS
julsimon@amazon.fr
@julsimon